Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis